Deleted Thread

February 1, 2007 8:59 AM

WCityMike got me thinking with his recent thread. I like deleted thread. Frankly I think its uniqueness constitutes BOTW. So...would it violate the rules to do a blue post about it? (AFAIK no one has yet)
posted by allkindsoftime to Etiquette/Policy at 8:59 AM (33 comments total)

Probably belongs here, as it's MetaFilter-related, rather than there.
posted by cgc373 at 9:01 AM on February 1, 2007

It's about Metafilter, so it belongs in Metatalk.

It's satisfying to think that even the stuff we delete is the 'Best of the Web'. But if it was 'BOTW' why would it have been deleted in the first place?
posted by matthewr at 9:02 AM on February 1, 2007

To push the point further, though, Ask MetaFilter is also probably best of the web, and also hasn't been posted to the front page of the blue, to my knowledge.
posted by cgc373 at 9:03 AM on February 1, 2007

I know...creates this circular logic...
posted by allkindsoftime at 9:03 AM on February 1, 2007

Has anyone posted metafilter to the blue yet?
posted by routergirl at 9:07 AM on February 1, 2007

It's a really good site, routergirl.
posted by cgc373 at 9:08 AM on February 1, 2007

SLBOE GYOFB KTHXBYE
posted by Mister_A at 9:11 AM on February 1, 2007

Has anyone posted metafilter to the blue yet?

The internet would collapse in on its self like a snake eating its own tail.

Has anyone digged digg yet?
posted by drezdn at 9:15 AM on February 1, 2007

I'm thinking that even if it were allowed (I honestly don't know), you'd get a whole bucket of flack for it, allkindsoftime. It'd be like, "Meh", and maybe "These were deleted for a reason" and then after several comments like that someone would post a link to meta and say, "BOTW?" and Mattamyn would go in and clean up snarky comments and/or delete the whole thing with a comment like, "We deleted these for a reason".

I'm not invested either way - I'm just using my powers of prediction here.
posted by routergirl at 9:19 AM on February 1, 2007

And time becomes a loop.
And time becomes a loop.
posted by loquacious at 9:23 AM on February 1, 2007

It belongs in the grey, not on Metafilter. Think of it as a collective self-link.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 9:23 AM on February 1, 2007

Using the blue to draw attention to things pointedly removed from the blue is not a great idea. I say this despite being a daily deletion reader.

(As an incidental link in a well-constructed post about website administration or meta-commentary or such, it'd fit, I suppose.)
posted by cortex at 9:25 AM on February 1, 2007

Sometimes the deletion reasons are hilarious. And the ASCII art.
posted by Mister_A at 9:27 AM on February 1, 2007

What? kingoftheshitpile.blogspot.com was taken?
posted by felix betachat at 9:28 AM on February 1, 2007

I read Deleted Thread, too, for what its worth. I think cortex said it the best - if you could couch it in a related post, it would fly, but on its own, I don't think so.
posted by routergirl at 9:35 AM on February 1, 2007

I think ask.me was the subject of a front page post when it was launched, although I can't find it right now.
posted by bigmusic at 9:54 AM on February 1, 2007

From post-a-link page: The link you entered (ask.metafilter.com) was found in 90 previous threads. The oldest occurring on December 17, 2003 by MiguelCardoso.
posted by and hosted from Uranus at 10:18 AM on February 1, 2007

Has anyone digged digg yet?

No, but DuggMirror has, with over 12,000 diggs.
posted by yeti at 10:27 AM on February 1, 2007

Or rather, Doug has dugg Duggmirror on Digg, ya dig?
posted by yeti at 10:38 AM on February 1, 2007

DigDug
posted by Mister_A at 10:49 AM on February 1, 2007

Digdogger
posted by cortex at 10:51 AM on February 1, 2007

For a second I thought BOTW meant Ban Of The Week. That would make a much more exciting MeTa feature.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 11:51 AM on February 1, 2007

If it's about MetaFilter it belongs on MetaTalk, where it now is.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:50 PM on February 1, 2007

Yeah! Go ahead and post it to MetaTalk! I can't wait to check it out, once you've posted it to MetaTalk, as others have suggested!
posted by Kwine at 3:46 PM on February 1, 2007

Yeah! MetaTalk!
posted by Kwine at 3:47 PM on February 1, 2007

*guitar flourish*
posted by cortex at 3:55 PM on February 1, 2007

AWESOME! MetaTalk!

I'm having an excellent time, but I promise I'll stop now.
posted by Kwine at 4:02 PM on February 1, 2007

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
posted by shoesfullofdust at 5:09 PM on February 1, 2007

In some ways, this thread reminds me of a recurring dream I used to have. It's like this, see: I invent a time machine. I use it to travel back in time. The act of travelling back in time somehow destroys the universe. So, I decide to try to stop myself from inventing a time machine. This ultimately fails, as in order to go back in time and keep myself from inventing a time machine, I have to eventually invent a time machine. Ad infinitum.

I haven't had that dream in a while.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 6:08 PM on February 1, 2007

Ask MetaFilter is also probably best of the web, and also hasn't been posted to the front page of the blue, to my knowledge.

Are you kidding me? There's been a link to AskMe on the front page for years.

Are you kidding me?! Playoffs?!?
posted by ikkyu2 at 8:35 PM on February 1, 2007

I wish that deletedthread allowed comments.

Any particular reason? I turned comments off when I saw that the only comment ever posted was some spam. I could turn them back on if it's that interesting.
posted by bob sarabia at 10:41 PM on February 1, 2007

Actually, now that I look I can see there are a fair amount of comments on old posts. I think all but one was spam.
posted by bob sarabia at 10:47 PM on February 1, 2007

Blogger has a pretty good comment spam blocker at this point.
posted by allkindsoftime at 8:09 AM on February 2, 2007